I saw where one of our newly gold members apologized for not being around more often. No apology is necessary. We like when people do find time to stop by,
and we do think it helps to reinforce the person and all of our current members when they do. But the primary reason anyone should be coming is to secure his
or her quit. Time is a valuable commodity in short supply for many people--we understand that here.
One of the reasons we believe so strongly in the importance of not smoking is it buys each of us more time. Not just in living longer though, but more time
being healthy, more time being more productive, and more time to spend more money which is no longer being wasted on tobacco products. In a true sense
quitting smoking gives us everyone more time to live a higher quality and richer life.
So people who quit and move on with their lives keeping it full and busy are in fact doing exactly what we want them to do. Again, if a person ever has a
little time I hope he or she does stop by and read a little, just to avoid ever getting complacent. Whether we ever know about it or not is not important--as
long as the person leaves reinforced. If you have a few seconds to say hello and that life has gone on without smoking--that is great too. But what is really
more important is that you leave here feeling a little more reinforced and still completely resolute in your original desire to never take another puff!
Joel
For PassOnSmoke
sorry, not to cause a diversion but heck I'm
proud of that too!)
